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Summary

Organization Theory offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the study of organizations and organizing processes. It encourages an even-handed appreciation of the different perspectives contributing to our knowledge of organizations and challenges readers to broaden their intellectualreach. Organization Theory is in three parts: BL Part I introduces the multi-perspective approach. BL Part II presents many ways in which organizations can be analyzed - as entities within an environment, as social structures, technologies, cultures and physical structures, and as the products of power and political processes. BL Part III explores applications of organization theory to the practical matters of organizational design and change, and introduces the latest perspectives on the horizons of organization theory, including complex adaptive systems, organizational identity theory, critical realism, network theory,aesthetics, and organizational learning. Online Resource Centre For lecturers: PowerPoint slides, exam questions, teachig suggestions, a discussion forum, case studies and exercises with instructor's notes. For Students: annotated web links, and discussion questions.

Author Biography

Mary Jo Hatch is the C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research Professor of Banking and Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia and Adjunct Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Ann Cunliffe is Associate Professor in the Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico.

Table of Contents

List of figures

xxii

List of tables

xxiv

PART I What is Organization Theory?

1

(60)

1 Why Study Organization Theory?

3

(22)

Theories and theorizing organizations

4

(4)

Concepts and abstraction in theory development

8

(2)

Multiple perspectives

10

(8)

Plan of the book

18

(2)

Summary

20

(1)

Key terms

21

(1)

Endnotes

21

(1)

References

22

(3)

2 A Brief History of Organization Theory

25

(36)

Organization theory at its inception

26

(10)

Modernist influences on organization theory

36

(5)

Symbolic-interpretive influences

41

(6)

Some postmodern influences

47

(8)

Summary

55

(2)

Key terms

57

(1)

Endnotes

57

(1)

References

58

(2)

Further reading

60

(1)

PART II Core Concepts and Theories

61

(232)

3 Organization and Environment

63

(38)

Defining the organizational environment

65

(12)

Modernist theories relating organizations to their environments

77

(8)

Symbolic-interpretive environmental analysis

85

(5)

Postmodernism and organization–environment relations

90

(6)

Summary

96

(2)

Key terms

98

(1)

Endnotes

98

(1)

References

99

(1)

Further reading

100

(1)

4 Organizational Social Structure

101

(40)

Origins of the social structure concept

102

(7)

Modernist theories of organizational social structure

109

(17)

Symbolic-interpretive approaches

126

(5)

Postmodern approaches to social structure

131

(3)

Summary

134

(1)

Key terms

135

(1)

Endnotes

135

(1)

References

136

(2)

Further reading

138

(3)

5 Technology

141

(34)

Modernist definitions and three typologies

142

(11)

Technology in the symbolic-interpretive perspective

153

(3)

Postmodernism and technology

156

(5)

Combining technology with social structure and environment

161

(9)

Summary

170

(1)

Key terms

170

(1)

Endnotes

171

(1)

References

171

(1)

Further reading

172

(3)

6 Organizational Culture

175

(46)

What is organizational culture and how did it become part of organization theory?

178

(3)

Modernist approaches to organizational culture

181

(10)

Symbolic-interpretive organizational culture research

191

(11)

Postmodernism and organizational culture

202

(1)

Deconstructing organizational culture

203

(4)

Changing culture

207

(6)

Summary

213

(1)

Key terms

213

(1)

Endnotes

214

(1)

References

215

(3)

Further reading

218

(3)

7 The Physical Structure of Organizations

221

(30)

Elements of physical structure

223

(9)

Linking technology, social and physical structure

232

(7)

Physical structure, organizational culture and identity

239

(7)

Summary

246

(1)

Key terms

246

(1)

Endnotes

246

(1)

References

247

(3)

Further reading

250

(1)

8 Organizational Power, Control and Conflict

251

(42)

Modernist conceptions of power, politics and control

253

(12)

Critical studies of power and control

265

(5)

Feminist and postmodern conceptions of power and control

270

(9)

Organizational conflict in relation to environment, social structure, technology, culture, physical structure and power